in over my head ascii

[Blair P. Houghton]

mensanator at aol.com wrote:
> What do you bet the server software was written by someone
> who thought ASCII STX meant literally the characters "STX"?

Wouldn't explain the "ENX" instead of "ETX".

> I've seen stupider things.

I give it 25% probability of being what you said, and 75% probability
that they didn't want to send any characters that couldn't be printed
in plaintext.

I've seen literally dozens of this kind of roll-your-own serial
protocol in the past few years, and they're all indicative that no two
are alike.  Ever read the ARINC 429 documents? They'll curl your toes.

--Blair
  "It's protocols all the way down."